Tuesday, January 20, 2015

It may happen for some reason, like you've changed an hard drive from one machine to another (or even on Virtual Machines) that when you try to enter an IP Address you get the error above.
This usually happens because the previous network adapters are still available on the operating system, although their hidden.

To fix this issue, follow this steps:

Login on the machine

Open a command prompt as administrator

Execute the command: set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1

On the sime command prompt, execute the command: start devmgmt.msc

On Device Manager, click on View -> Show hidden devices

Go to Network Adapters and delete the greyed out or "ghosted" network adapters and restart the machine

Notes: If for any reason the pass 3 doesn't work, you need to create a System Variable called DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES and with value 1 and than open Device Manager.